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It had been 7 hours since she had been in the White House when they had collected all of the bones from the craters which had been uncovered at the moment. There was now 6 boxes with full skeletons in them, and another two, one from Zack and one from herself, with those that didn't go.
'Got all the pictures. Finally. Do you know how many adjoining rooms there are to this one?' Angela announce as she entered the room, accompanied by 3 FBIs.
Brennan looked over to her, removing her latex gloves and stretched after kneeling down all day.
'No. And I don't really want to, either.' She sighed. She looked over at Zack, who looked too tired to even stand up. He smiled lazily at her and then at Angela.
'How'd it go in here, anyways?' she asked. Angela had left the room as soon as she had taken the pictures, which had taken less than an hour. She had also taken her 3 FBI agents, not that they were all hers, with her. That had left one FBI in the room with Zack and Brennan.
'Ok, I guess. Found 6 six bodies, with multiple other bones out of place. It would have been much quicker if these people needn't be here!' she sighed, knowing that Angela's nod was only to comfort her, not to agree with her. She couldn't help but smile.
'Have your team completed their search here, Dr. Brennan?' Agent Donahue asked as he walked into the room, bringing with him another two FBI agents.
Brennan nodded, and smiled when she saw Angela's face light up. For her, this must be her dream come true.
'Yes, sir. We need all of these 8 boxes to be sent to my lab for a full identification. We could transport them ourselves, but considering the circumstances…' Brennan trailed off, knowing that the Senior Agent wouldn't even dare to let them take the bones to Jeffersonian by themselves.
'Very well. I will organise the transport as soon as possible. They should arrive there within an hour after dispatch. Until then, I must insist that you and your team' he said, looking at an almost sleeping Zack and a flirting Angela, 'clear the room so that we can continue to search for any more remains in this room. Excuse me.' He added as he left the room as his cell phone began to vibrate, what Brennan could only imagine.
'I guess we're leaving then.' Brennan sighed to the others as the FBIs ushered them out of the room. As she went to pick up her bag, another agent went for it. He flashed a smile to her, and then walked out of the room. She followed suit, being the last out of the room.
When they had re-entered the main room, Brennan couldn't help but search for Booth. To her frustration, he wasn't there. She sighed. They stood in the room for a further 15 minutes, conversing between themselves and the FBIs, who mainly seemed interested in the case only to talk to the ladies, which Angela was enjoying but Brennan was getting annoyed.
She excused herself from the conversation and walked over to Zack, who was talking to other FBI agents, all of who were discussing what they were going to do next.
'What's going on?' she asked, bored out of her mind. If it were up to her, she would be back in her lab by now. But it wasn't, and she had to wait until Donahue had sorted things out and then go. It was already past 9pm, but Brennan knew that it was going to be a late night for her.
'The team's figuring out where to search for the remains next. I was just trying to help out, you know, thinking about where we found these bodies.' He added, a bit nervous in case he was wrong.
Brennan nodded.
'Can I see?' she asked, wanting to see what her task for tomorrow was going to be. The leader of the group, or so it seemed, nodded with a 'Yes, ma'am' and passed the blueprint and map over to her.
'These are the remains that we have already uncovered,' he said, pointing to the red circles on the map. 'And these are the places which your partner has recommended.' He now pointed to 3 green circles. She could almost feel the how uncomfortable Zack was feeling after being called her partner. She couldn't help but smile.
'These are fine. Although would add one here,' she reached for the green marker, which another agent handed to her, 'thanks. And one here. All the bones were found close to each other, and these spaces should do it.' She placed the marker down. Something was nagging at the back of her mind.
'Um. Are you guys, in the end, gonna dig up the whole floor?'
'That is the plan, Doctor. But right now we are concentring on places which would contain remains so that we can get the end of it as soon as we could.' The agent replied to her. She simply nodded.
'Doctor Brennan.' A voice behind her summoned her. She turned around at the now too familiar voice to see Agent Donahue, with, as usual, an entrage of FBI agents. But this time one was Booth, who came over to them, unlike the others, who stayed behind him. She couldn't' help but smile, which she quickly hid.
'Ok. Doctor, we have arranged for the boxes with your bones to be sent to the Jeffersonian as soon as possible, which should be by 10pm. They should get there at approximately 11pm, followed by protocol checking and security checks. As long as the bones stay there, at least three FBI agents will remain in the building at all times. I have organised agents to escort you and your team out and home tonight, and then for the rest of the duration of this investigation. Let me remind you that there will always be at least one FBI agent at the lab while you work. Is this understood, Doctor Brennan?'
Brennan had a feeling that he wasn't given the whole speech to only her, but knew that she would disapprove of what he had said. But before she could protest about anything, if she had wanted to, that was, Angela cut in.
'It should be fine. We are all knackered, so how long 'till we can leave?'
'Right now, miss.' He stepped aside to let her go through, her arm linked casually through the FBI who she had been flirting with. Lucky for Zack, and probably Hodgins when he saw, Donahue had arranged for a beautiful female agent to escort him. The Senior Agent had said it was to throw off as much suspicion as possible, to which Booth had a difficult time to stop himself from laughing his head off.
'Lemme guess.' Brennan said, turning to face him, who had a grin on his face, trying to look innocent, 'I get you?'
'Yep. Your lucky day, huh?' he grinned his usual smile that made Brennan smile back no matter what mood she was in. 'c'mon. Let's get going. I really don't wanna be here anymore.' He added. Brennan couldn't pinpoint the tone in his voice, but had to forget about it when Donahue addressed her.
'I will call you when we are ready to proceed. It should be at noon, tomorrow. Until then, you have the remains found this time.' He nodded at Booth, who nodded back and walked off to the other FBIs.
They walked down the stairs which they had come up on almost 8 hours ago. They walked silently, the only noises being that of the other FBI agents all around them. It was only then that Brennan realised that someone was missing from the surroundings.
'Hey, Booth. Where's the President?'
Booth turned to look at her, and slowed down a bit to fall into step with her. He saw the look on her face as her eyebrows furrowed, trying to figure it out by herself. He couldn't help but smile at how cute she looked.
'He's been sent to a secure place to stay. The senators should be here soon, then the President will arrive back again. That'll probably be tomorrow. So you better be on guard, Bones, cos he'll want to meet you.' he added, smiling, turning to see how a self conscious grin had spread onto his partner's face.
They reached to the SUV, still parked as it had been for the last 8 hours. Brennan had noticed this, and as soon as they headed out of the White House gates, she questioned Booth.
'Where did you go? After we came, I mean?' she turned in her seat to face him. When she saw a smile creping upon his face, she knew that she wasn't going to get a serious answer.
'Why? Did you miss me?' he asked, turning to face her for a second, raising his eyebrows in a questioning way.
'Ha! Yeah…' she trailed off, trying to be sarcastic. But she knew better than anyone else that Booth could see though her attempts to lie. She shook hr head and turned her attention back to the road. It took a few minutes to realise that they weren't going on the normal route that they normally would go on.
'Uh, Booth? Where are we going?'
'Hm? Why? Where did you wanna go?' he asked, not wanting to answer before he got her state of mind from her. He wasn't sure if she was in a work mode or her relaxing mode. Probably work.
'I thought we were going back to the lab.' She said, a bit confused.
'Why? It's a bit late, and I thought you'd be hungry. I know I am.' He smiled his pleading smile at her.
'Do not do that, Seeley! It's just thought that with the boxes coming soon…' she trailed off at the look of booth shaking his head. He was happy that she had called him by his first name; it meant that she wasn't entirely in her work mode.
'Soon? In two hours. What are you gonna do till then at the lab? Actually don't answer that,' he quickly commented as he saw her mouth open to respond. 'C'mon. We are going to go out.'
'What? On a date?' she asked, getting slightly amused by his words.
'Yeah. If you want. Considering we haven't yet been on one.' He nodded to himself, like it was a good idea. But then his face fell a bit when he thought about where he had just came form, and the time in the night. He glanced over to Brennan, and saw the look on her face to be the same as his.
'Maybe not tonight?' he asked. She shook her head.
'It's just after tonight…' she knew that she didn't have to continue for Booth to get the message.
'But we are not going to the lab.' He put in, hoping that she wasn't thinking of that. Yeah right.
'Oh Booth!' she whined.
He smiled and shook his head. Sometimes she was like a kid. Before he knew it, he was parking in front of Wong Foos. They both got out the car, continuing their conversion, more like an argument, that had lasted for over half an hour.
When inside, they got seated at the bar as Sid popped out from behind.
'Hey. Let's see.' he looked at Booth first and then at Brennan, in a manner that, if it were anyone else, he would have punched him in a second. 'Ok. Back in a sec.'
'so where did you go in the-' Brennan stopped abruptly, noticing that she was just about to say 'the White House' in a very public place. Booth had seen how close she had been to let it slip out, and then laughed the look on her face afterwards.
'What?' she asked when he had started to laugh.
'Nothing. It's just, that look.' He said, between sudden laughs.
'What about it?' she narrowed her eyes. Booth knew that look. It was, at the moment, one that meant that if he didn't say the right thing, she would hit him, and then not talk to him for a while.
'You just looked cute and if we weren't here, I would have so just kissed you.' he had dropped his voice to a whisper at the end. He had turned to look at Sid, who had bought over their food and drinks when he felt a sharp blow to his upper arm.
'Ow! Oh c'mon! How was that bad?' he asked, pleading with her to talk with him. After a couple of minutes, he gave up, and they ate in silence, glancing at her every now and again, smiling.
They finished eating in silence, and Booth got up after paying the bill and followed Brennan to the SUV.
'So, where to?' he asked when she paused in front of the door to the passenger seat. He hadn't opened the car yet.
Brennan didn't reply. She just simply crossed her arms, and put on a cold stare, turning to face him. Booth grinned. He knew that this was coming. That was why he hadn't opened the locks.
'If you don't talk to me, we are gonna be here for a long time.' He came out with, in a singsong voice. Brennan kept her stare, making the smile that was dying to come out inside.
'Fine.' He simply murmured. He came closer to her until she had her back against the car. He then put his right hand under her chin, turning it up to face him. With the other hand pressed against the car next to her waist, booth leaned in to kiss her.
At first, Brennan resisted, fighting to deepen the kiss. But in the end, as always, she reluctantly gave in. they kissed softly, yet deeply for about a couple of minutes, but it was enough to get Brennan out of her ice queen mood.
She smiled without opening her eyes as she felt Booth rest his forehead against hers.
'So.' He whispered once again. 'Where to?'
'How late is it?' she whispered back, not moving a bit. Lucky for her, the car park to Wong Foos was secluded.
Booth shrugged.
'Can't be past 10. 10:30 the latest.' He changed his mind to.
She shook her head. It was getting a bit chilly outside, and she felt Booth move closer to her.
'I don't wanna go home, yet. Not the lab either.' She hesitantly added.
'Ok. I'm guessing you don't wanna go back to mine either.' She shook her head to agree. ''k. How about my office?' he asked, now looking into her eyes. She felt the slight movement which Booth had made and opened her eyes to see why. What she was were his deep eyes, pulling her in.
'Ok.' She managed to stumble out.
'Good.' He moved slowly, and unlocked the doors. Opening the door, Brennan got in and shut the door as Booth got in the other side.
Slowly, for once, they drove from the restaurant to the FBI headquarters where Booth's office was situated. Brennan laid her head back and closed her eyes after a long day. She felt Booth's hand find hers and held it limply until they got there.
Unfortunately, not know to Brennan, nor Booth, this case was going to bring even longer days, and nights, to them.
SO? How was that?
Were they out of character? Please tell me!
I added some BB – more next chappie- and more in other… unless you don't want me too.
Also next chapter – more into the case and Angela hehehehe!
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xXx Tiana